Last week's entry was Watermark - A Grateful People
I know these entries are becoming quite sparse, so I'll try to make these more than just updates. If you really want to be updated on what's going on in my life, give me a call. (or ask to view my google calendar ^_^)
As the first full week of seminary has ended, I am realizing more and more of how much I can't do this by myself. I mean, I didn't get here on my own, and neither can I succeed here (academically, or personally) in the same way. God has to be my source and my strength, and has to the driving force and goal of my life and vocation. I need to focus more on prayer and my relationship with God, as well as increasing in my knowledge of Him through Systematic, Historical, Exegetical, and Pastoral Theology. Otherwise my time at Westminster would simply be another academic venture. Instead of learning about God in Physics, I am learning about God in the Bible and the covenant.
With that said, I have a request for you, the reader. Whether you went to Honduras or UCSD with me, or if you have never met me in person, I ask that you pray for me. Just as Paul asked the church in Ephesus in the end of his epistle, I ask you to pray for my weaknesses, and for my chains. Pray that my chains would advance the gospel, and that in proclaiming it I may speak bodly, as I ought to speak. Pray that I would be a man of integrity, a man of my word. And please pray that I would delight myself in the Lord and His law, that through my chains and ministry my joy may be fulfilled.
And if you're wondering why I suddenly type different, don't worry. I mean, anyone would start to type more formally if they read so much covenant theology.
So I don't feel like studying right now, so I guess I'll update
I sang at a wedding last Saturday. It was pretty cool. Sang amazing grace with Marsha as an allegory to marriage and then played a lot of background guitar. The wedding was overall pretty low key and all of us pretty much had a good time. I was even dragged onto the dance floor for most of the reception. The whole day was pretty fun except for the fact that I knew 3 couples that got married that day. So I'm excited for all of you who are now married / are getting married soon, but the rest of you need to STOP GETTING MARRIED!! Come on people, enough is enough. You're making the rest of us look bad. Oh btw, Joe and I caught the garter simultaneously...
Greek this week is pretty tough. Participles. Not fun stuff. However, I'll be able to read most of my New Testament in greek soon. No more NIV, NASB, ESV, NLT, or the message remix. Straight up greek bible. Yay?
I'll probably see Lauren this week. Haha to all you CTI people. Two weeks in a row of making people jealous. We'll probably call you to torment you some more. Be forewarned.
I guess I should get back to my greek. These participles won't conjugate and place themselves in their adjectival positions by themselves...
Summer so far: went home to cupertino a couple times got contacts went on an amazing roadtrip in an RV with 18 friends to Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Lake Powell, and Las Vegas got into seminary had a birthday; went to Julian and Callahan's got a new roommate began Greek I at seminary hung out with Debbie Ko Chen
Greek is good, but hard. I should still have an A right now, but I didn't do my best on this last test. We have a quiz everyday and a test every week, so I'm studying all the time all the time.
Visted a church last week. It was pretty good, but nothing special. However, I was talking with the Pastor afterwards, and he probably knew I was looking for an internship. He told me that they had a need for someone to go to UCSD and to help the student ministries there by investing in the leaders and ministries with encouragement, prayer, discipleship, materials, and money. I was really really excited about that job, and the pastor made it seem like if I wanted the job, it would be mine. So... I'm probably going to still church hop for a little more, but if nothing better turns up, I'll be working for Harbor Presbyterian in Mira Mesa and I'll still be helping out and Crusade (and other fellowships)
Hung out with Debbie yesterday. It was really fun. Went to Pizza Port and La Jolla shores. We also made a point to make everyone else jealous.
I'm singing and playing at Eric and Elika's Wedding on Saturday and I just went to the bachelor party. People need to stop getting married, seriously
Life is starting to get exciting now. Let's hope it doesn't speed out of control
Last week's title was Daphne Loves Derby - Hammers and Hearts
So I've finally graduated. Walked and picked up a fake piece of paper. My friends and I were jokers and inflated a shamu pool buddy and tossed it up into the rest of the graduates. We also threw tortillas into the air a lot.
Sent in my application for Westminster. God help me.
Don't worry, I'm not dating anyone, the beautiful girl in the picture is Aubrey Bachman, a good friend. The picture is from our GAP night, which will be addressed below.
So it's been forever... but I'm going to update. A lot has happened, and yet a lot hasn't happened. I guess I have to recap everything that's happened since May. Ok, here we go.
Moved into the new house, it rocks. It's 2 stories, 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, and looks like a barn from the outside. 2196 sq. feet, big backyard (full of weeds), big garage, driveway, front plants, and useless front gate thing. I really like the house. It's very spacious, and oh yeah, we have a music room. It's got mirrors covering one wall and I jam there. It's great.
The Nathan Walker moved into the house too. I haven't really had much time to hang out with him until yesterday though, because of all the craziness that goes on. He is amazing though.
School has been really tough, but it's over finally. Lab took like 30 hours a week, working with Colossal Magnetoresistive Transition Metal Manganites. Yeah, don't worry about it. Finals were pretty tough last week, but they're over and now I am no longer an undergraduate student (if all goes well).
I'm applying to seminary now, Westminster Southern California in Escondido and Bethel Seminary in San Diego. I really want to go to Westminster, and I can't wait till I start there. I'm really excited about where God's taking me. I mean, I'm going to be able to serve him professionally. It's going to be extremely hard, but it'll be amazing.
For Crusade we had our Girl's Appreciation (GAP) night two weeks ago. It was amazing. Every year we have girls and guys appreciation nights, and this was my last one. It's a huge community night with the goal of appreciating the other gender. I was involved in pretty much everything in the night, but that's because I really wanted to let the girls know that I appreciate everything that they've done for our ministry, our community, and for me individually. We had fun things, like dinner, karaoke.. and we also had very serious things like my song, gifts, and an affirmation time. The affirmation time was our big push. In recent years, GAP night has become a production instead of a night of appreciation, and that reflected the health of our ministry. This year, however, we focused the night on community, and we had a time to address people's fears, insecurities, joys, blessings and such as a community. It was like a reverse altar call kinda. Anyway, we were really worried about it, because something like that is really scary. But God pulled through and it was amazing. You had to be there. God was moving. Anyway, here's some pictures.
I sang a "90's" medley containing: Wonderwall, Time after Time, She's so High, You and Me, I'll be, and Time of your life.
Senior Guys presenting the senior gift
Senior Girls receiving the senior gift
Senior Gift in question, we made them necklaces with semi-precious stones on them. Each stone represents a different quality that we appreciate about them. Every necklace was unique. They were given in nice wooden boxes and notes were left in the boxes form the guys. Also, read Joshua 4 and look for the parallel to the stones from the Jordan that were left at Gilgal
Most of the seniors
Most of the girls
I've been starting to say goodbye to all of my friends that are going away. It's been really hard. I mean, how do you say goodbye to a good friend that you've known for 4 years? What do you say? What can you do?
Hopefully I won't vanish off the face of the earth again. I'll keep updating on xanga, even as I go through different stages of life.
